The Familiar Letter In The Eighteenth Century

Author : Howard Peter Anderson,Philip B. Daghlian,Irvin Ehrenpreis
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UVA:X000447211

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The Familiar Letter in the Eighteenth Century by Howard Peter Anderson,Philip B. Daghlian,Irvin Ehrenpreis Pdf

With the growth of efficient postal service in England and the stimulus of a growing tradition of informal prose among eighteenth-century men of leisure, the intimate letter reached unprecedented literary heights as the exemplary form of the period. Considered here are the striking and diverse qualities both of the art and the personalities of the great letter-writers: Swift, Pope, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Richardson, the Earl of Chesterfield, Johnson, Sterne, Gray, Walpole, Burke, Cowper, Gibbon, and Boswell.

Author : Cynthia J. Lowenthal
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820336930

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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter by Cynthia J. Lowenthal Pdf

This is is the first critical study of one of the most important women writers of the early eighteenth century, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762), who produced a body of erudite and entertaining correspondence that spanned more than fifty years. Lady Mary's letters illuminate the difficulties encountered by a sensitive, intelligent, and gifted woman writer living through an era of significant cultural change. These letters display the tensions inherent in the competing demands of public and private life, revealing Lady Mary's own discomfort about the problems of authorship and authority in an age that held publication to be an improper activity for respectable women. Through the discourse of supposedly “private” letters, Lady Mary was able to find an avenue for her talents that brought her “public” stature without violating the imperatives of her position as a woman and an aristocrat. Cynthia Lowenthal argues persuasively that Lady Mary's letters, themselves central to the establishment of the familiar letter as an important eighteenthcentury genre, were self-consciously constructed as literary artifacts and crafted as part of a larger female epistolary tradition. Moreover, Lowenthal contends, the works of Lady Mary are essential to the feminist recuperation of women's writing precisely because she provided an aristocratic critique—a voice often ignored—of the class and gender codes of her day.

Author : Howard Peter ANDERSON
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:557932803

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The Familiar Letter in the Eighteenth Century. Edited by Howard Anderson, Philip B. Daghlian, Irvin Ehrenpreis. [A Reduced Photographic Reprint of the Edition of 1966.]. by Howard Peter ANDERSON Pdf

Author : Susan M. Fitzmaurice
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1588111865

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The Familiar Letter in Early Modern English by Susan M. Fitzmaurice Pdf

This research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this method through case studies that illuminate how modern pragmatic theory may be applied to distant speech communities in both history and culture in order to reveal how speakers understand one another and how they exploit intended and unintended meanings for their own communicative ends. The analysis demonstrates the application of pragmatic theory (including speech act theory, deixis, politeness, implicature, and relevance theory) to the study of historical, literary and fictional letters from extended correspondences, producing an historically informed, richly situated account of the meanings and interpretations of those letters that a close reading affords. This book will be of interest to scholars of the history of the English language, historical pragmatics, discourse analysis, as well as to social and cultural historians, and literary critics.

Author : David Barton,Nigel Hall
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1556192088

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Letter Writing as a Social Practice by David Barton,Nigel Hall Pdf

This book explores the social significance of letter writing. Letter writing is one of the most pervasive literate activities in human societies, crossing formal and informal contexts. Letters are a common text type, appearing in a wide variety of forms in most domains of life. More broadly, the importance of letter writing can be seen in that the phenomenon has been widespread historically, being one of earliest forms of writing, and a wide range of contemporary genres have their roots in letters. The writing of a letter is embedded in a particular social situation, and like all other types of literacy objects and events, the activity gains its meaning and significance from being situated in cultural beliefs, values, and practices. This book brings together anthropologists, historians, educators and other social scientists, providing a range of case studies that explore aspects of the socially situated nature of letter writing.

Author : Sarah Pearsall
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191559792

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Atlantic Families by Sarah Pearsall Pdf

The Atlantic represented a world of opportunity in the eighteenth century, but it represented division also, separating families across its coasts. Whether due to economic shifts, changing political landscapes, imperial ambitions, or even simply personal tragedy, many families found themselves fractured and disoriented by the growth and later fissure of a larger Atlantic world. Such dislocation posed considerable challenges to all individuals who viewed orderly family relations as both a general and a personal ideal. The more fortunate individuals who thus found themselves 'all at sea' were able to use family letters, with attendant emphases on familiarity, sensibility, and credit, in order to remain connected in times and places of considerable disconnection. Portraying the family as a unified, affectionate, and happy entity in such letters provided a means of surmounting concerns about societies fractured by physical distance, global wars, and increasing social stratification. It could also provide social and economic leverage to individual men and women in certain circumstances. Sarah Pearsall explores the lives and letters of these families, revealing the sometimes shocking stories of those divided by sea. Ranging across the Anglophone Atlantic, including mainland American colonies and states, Britain, and the British Caribbean, Pearsall argues that it was this expanding Atlantic world, much more than the American Revolution, that reshaped contemporary ideals about families, as much as families themselves reshaped the transatlantic world.

Author : William Mills Todd
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810117118

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The Familiar Letter as a Literary Genre in the Age of Pushkin by William Mills Todd Pdf

This text examines the tradition of familiar letter writing that developed in the early 1800s among the Arzamasians, a literary circle that included such luminaries as Pushkin, Karamzin and Turgenev, and argues that these letters constitute a distinct literary genre. Todd gives a thorough prehistory of the convention of correspondence and concentrates on the themes, strategies, and autobiographical functions of the letter for several master writers in Pushkin's time. It is written in an accessible style with translations, an annotated list of the Arzamasians, and an extensive index and a bibliography.

Author : Clare Brant
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230249086

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Eighteenth-Century Letters and British Culture by Clare Brant Pdf

This important new book explores epistolary forms and practices in relation to important areas of British culture. Familiar ideas about epistolary fiction and personal correspondence, and public and private, are re-examined in the light of alternative paradigms, showing how the letter is a genre at the centre of Eighteenth-century life.

Author : M. Bigold
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137033574

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Women of Letters, Manuscript Circulation, and Print Afterlives in the Eighteenth Century by M. Bigold Pdf

Using unpublished manuscript writings, this book reinterprets material, social, literary, philosophical and religious contexts of women's letter-writing in the long 18th century. It shows how letter-writing functions as a form of literary manuscript exchange and argues for manuscript circulation as a method of engaging with the republic of letters.

Author : Bruce Redford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0226706796

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The Converse of the Pen by Bruce Redford Pdf

Author : Susan Whyman
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191615856

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The Pen and the People by Susan Whyman Pdf

Susan Whyman draws on a hidden world of previously unknown letter writers to explore bold new ideas about the history of writing, reading and the novel. Capturing actual dialogues of people discussing subjects as diverse as marriage, poverty, poetry, and the emotional lives of servants, The Pen and the People will be enjoyed by everyone interested in history, literature, and the intimate experiences of ordinary people. Based on over thirty-five previously unknown letter collections, it tells the stories of workers and the middling sort - a Yorkshire bridle maker, a female domestic servant, a Derbyshire wheelwright, an untrained woman writing poetry and short stories, as well as merchants and their families. Their ordinary backgrounds and extraordinary writings challenge accepted views that popular literacy was rare in England before 1800. This democratization of letter writing could never have occurred without the development of the Royal Mail. Drawing on new information gleaned from personal letters, Whyman reveals how the Post Office had altered the rhythms of daily life long before the nineteenth century. As the pen, the post, and the people became increasingly connected, so too were eighteenth-century society and culture slowly and subtly transformed.

Author : Andrew O. Winckles
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789624359

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Eighteenth-Century Women's Writing and the Methodist Media Revolution by Andrew O. Winckles Pdf

This book traces specific cases of how evangelical and Methodist discourse practices interacted with major cultural and literary events during the long eighteenth century, from the rise of the novel to the Revolution controversy of the 1790s to the shifting ground for women writers leading up to the Reform era in the 1830s.

Author : Rachael Scarborough King
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781421425498

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Writing to the World by Rachael Scarborough King Pdf

“King’s pitch for the indebtedness of the genres we know well—the novel, the biography, the magazine piece—to letter writing is stylish and convincing.” —Christina Lupton, author of Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century In Writing to the World, Rachael Scarborough King examines the shift from manuscript to print media culture in the long eighteenth century. She introduces the concept of the “bridge genre,” which enables such change by transferring existing textual conventions to emerging modes of composition and circulation. She draws on this concept to reveal how four crucial genres that emerged during this time—the newspaper, the periodical, the novel, and the biography—were united by their reliance on letters to accustom readers to these new forms of print media. King explains that as newspapers, scientific journals, book reviews, and other new genres began to circulate widely, much of their form and content was borrowed from letters, allowing for easier access to these unfamiliar modes of printing and reading texts. Arguing that bridge genres encouraged people to see themselves as connected by networks of communication—as members of what they called “the world” of writing—King combines techniques of genre theory with archival research and literary interpretation, analyzing canonical works such as Addison and Steele’s Spectator, Samuel Johnson’s Lives of the Poets, and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey alongside anonymous periodicals and the letters of middle-class housewives. This original and groundbreaking work in media and literary history offers a model for the process of genre formation. Ultimately, Writing to the World is a sophisticated look at the intersection of print and the public sphere. “This erudite, sophisticated, beautifully written book is a major achievement.” —Thomas Keymer, author of Poetics of the Pillory

Author : Mary McAlpin
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : French letters
ISBN : 0838756522

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Gender, Authenticity, and the Missive Letter in Eighteenth-century France by Mary McAlpin Pdf

"This study will particularly appeal to scholars of gender studies, but will also interest eighteenth-century specialists, reader-response critics, and any critic interested in the epistolary genre. Dr. McAlpin compares the evidence of de La Tour's authorial consciousness with that of far better known letter writers, both women (Sevigne, Graffigny, Lespinasse, Roland, Suzanne Necker) and men (Boswell, in particular). The book also introduces the exchange of letters to the English-speaking community of eighteenth-century scholars. While the de La Tour-Rousseau exchange was republished in French in 1998, it is not yet available in English. This book provides translations of the first, most significant letters in its appendix."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Tom Keymer,Thomas Keymer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521604400

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Richardson's 'Clarissa' and the Eighteenth-Century Reader by Tom Keymer,Thomas Keymer Pdf

Whilst drawing to some extent on recent theoretical studies, this book restores Clarissa to its largely neglected eighteenth-century context.